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Together with Hitachi Consulting Co Ltd, airline ANA and Hitachi Ltd announced that they had conducted demonstration experiments on technologies for automatically drafting routinely occurring operational schedule modifications to aircrafts.
This technology automatically drafts multiple operational schedule modifications in a short time and with high accuracy using digital technology that combines multiple Hitachi’s original optimization models.
Both companies have conducted demonstration tests since 2019.
For the operation flights of about 800 domestic flights and about 200 international flights per day, the operation schedule correction business which had conventionally been carried out by skilled persons by hand was replaced by the system, and the feasibility and effectiveness of the technology have been verified.
At the moment, it is expected that it will be able to revise flight schedules at speeds and precisions equivalent to those of technicians, as well as create multiple simultaneous schedules that are difficult to make manually.
The two companies said they intend to further shorten operation schedule correction time and improve accuracy in order to confirm adaptability to more multi-faceted and complicated actual cases.
In the future, Hitachi intends to apply the technology applied this time to general use, and to develop it in Japan and overseas as a service for airlines.
Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/03/05/ana-19/